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Cholera is a public health threat leading to preventable morbidity and mortality. Cholera prevention and control is a multi-sectoralresponsibility that requires many sectors/ministries namely: Water and Environment; Local Government; Gender; Education and Sports; Private sector and other government institutions.

Uganda is faced with frequent outbreaks of emerging diseases and high burden of other endemic conditions, including cholera, all of which require dedicated resources for their prevention and control. However, like many developing countries, Uganda is resource constrained, has an inadequate health development budget, and limited access to life saving technologies implying that efficient and

In Uganda like the rest of the world, the interaction between TB and HIV has not only increased the burden of both diseases amongst our people but has also led to an urgent need to control the transmission of TB and HIV. The emergence of Multi drug resistant TB complicates the picture further. There are many people at risk of acquiring TB in health care settings especially in HIV care clinics and at outpatient departments.

Patient with any one of the following- Cough for 2 weeks or more; persistent fever for > 2 weeks or more; noticeable weight loss; excessive night sweats and if child; poor weight gain or history of contact with a PTB patient

Tuberculosis (TB) and leprosy continue to threaten public health in Uganda. The Ugandan Ministry of Health addresses TB and leprosy response in its Health Sector Development Plan II 2015/2016 – 2019/20. TB is the fifth most common cause of death in Uganda, potentially resulting in adverse socioeconomic impacts as the majority of notified patients/cases are in their years of greatest economic productivity. Leprosy is still endemic in Uganda.

The fishery sub-sector is the second largest foreign exchange earner in Uganda’s economy (estimated at US$ 135 million) after coffee. However, declining trends in annual fish production are a real threat in terms of the loss of potential foreign exchange earnings, household income and food security. This study demonstrates that favourable international fish prices have supported steady foreign exchange earnings in Uganda amidst declining fish volumes.

Uganda’s agricultural growth has stagnated at about 2 percent for almost two decades yet the sector employs about 70% of the working population and contributes 40 percent of export earnings. On the other hand, Uganda’s population growth rate remains very high, above 3 percent per annum, signaling the likelihood of food insecurity and increase in poverty incidence.

Uganda, like other Sub-Saharan countries, continues to identify thousands of tuberculosis (TB) cases (43,858 TB patients of all types were notified in 2015/16), yet these are only half of the estimated TB cases. The recent national TB prevalence survey conducted in 2014/15 found a much higher TB burden (prevalence of 253/100,000 population), than was previously estimated.

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a disease of great public health concern in Uganda. The country is one of the 30 high TB/HIV burden countries in the world. The prevalence of TB estimated in the recently concluded National TB prevalence survey is almost two times higher than had previously been estimated (253 compared to 161 per 100,000 population).

The Ministry Of Health has introduced new recommendations for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Tuberculosis (TB) in children aged 0 - 14 years. The purpose of this flip chart is to guide front line health workers in providing quality and standardized screening, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TB in children according to the new recommendations.

The report summarizes the progress of WHO reform since the Director-General’s report to the Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly.2 It provides an overview of the current status of reforms and reviews progress in the three broad reform workstreams (programmes and priority-setting, governance, and management). It also begins to frame achievements in the context of the entire reform programme.

The Secretariat works with Member States to improve the health and well-being of their citizens, and WHO’s performance in countries has featured consistently as a high priority in internal and external evaluations of the Organization. WHO’s work in countries is more crucial than ever in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the globalization of health security threats, and the expanding cast of development actors.